The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 24, 1900, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1900 i e et bl s MORO:CO'S N 8 the Best 10RO FO 5. fikfl OPERA-HOUSE. $500 fUP n-:cmni:m in the MAURICE GRAE OPERA CO. CALIFORNIA, delivered to any address, city or coun- try, to be returned at our expense if it 1s not all you ex- pect it to be. Send No | Money. | Try It for 8 Days and if | heater is | satisfactory | send us a postal order | for $5.00. { This heater is 28 inches high, 14 inches in di- ameter, and is equipped | with the new smoke- less burner. PATTOSIEN’S | FURNITURE EXPOSITION BUILDING, Cor. Sixieenth and Mission Stresi N &t 2. “LOHENGRIN." humann-Heink: Van Dyck, nd Blass. “Conductor, Mr. G at 8, ““FAUST.” and Homer: Ealeza, 4 Ed. @e Reszke, Con. " THIS AFTERNOD THI EVENIN bt ot 824 Grand NNHAUSER. Popelar Night, Dippel. Muhl- , Viviani and Dress Circle, $25; Family General Admission, $1. the | NEXT WEEK. PER R NG DES NIBELUNGEN, (Wagner) s DAS RHEINGOL! 1t a an Cauterem, Dyck, Blass and SOTTER! n and Ed de Reszke. leink, Scheff, Bridewe s SAME SHAPE TWO QUALITIES 9 Bran WEBER PIANO USED. , - MATINEE TO-DAY (SAT., = Parquet, 25e, any seat; balcony chil- dren, i0c, an¥ part except reserved A NEW COMPANY OF UP-TO- DATE VAUDEVILLE STARS. MAX WALDON, STELLING AND REVELLE, CONDITT AND MOREY, BROTHERS MARTINE, IONE MACLOUTH, NOV. 100 > KATONAH:.| CRESWELL § 25¢each' 2 for25¢ CL ETT'; PEABODY &C0 AKERS ANNA BOYD, MR, and MRS DAN HIATT i DOLAN AND LENHARR, W. J. HYNES. { We will pay $25 to any one who cannot be cored with one box of VERUS PILE CURE -Day—To-Night No claimant for reward am sure my case of plles was as bad as any case could be. I had them fifteen years trt remedies re advertised, Imagine my cured 1_saw the bought a box, with surprise is the DANDY NEW YORK." S and SAM a cure. when five applications best in the world. 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DIRECTORY OF RESPONSIBLE HOUSES. | Catalogues and Price Lists Malled " on Applieation. | n This City. ange & Bdwards, 25¢ and BOe $00 Battery Street. * Telephone Main 1364, - 3 ATTORNEY. ( 4 / 174C7 F. H MERZBACH, lawyer. | ) » [,‘ 7 7 i 7UZ ('lli’rrvr.il st., flunkfl[fl(nt. Q'/(l / z ;r % COAL, COKE AND PIG IRON. Lz lAe == |J.C WILSON & CO. ES OF— | E BAND OF ITALY. PE TO-DAY! o HT! ROYAL MARIN COPPERS MITH. | C. W. SMITH, Ship Elumbing. Steamboat ana Ship Work clalty. 16 and 18 Washington st. Telephone Main 5641 | ELECTRICAL. D. D. WASS, Electrical Engineer. 36 Eas =t. FRESH AND SALT MEATS. | JAS. BOYES & CO. Shipping Butchers. 14 | o - Clay. Tel. Main 1294 GALVANIZING AND METALS, | M‘rr. & Dealer in Metals & Galvanizing. JOHN | _FINN METAL WORKS, 315 Howard st. METAL. | Extra linotype and stereotype metal. Pacifio Metal Works, 137-9 First st., San Franolsco. P R IGHT! day) AFTER- 3 E. EAVERLY'S MASTODON MINSTRELS Waltz-Me- Again) iverse. | lase Perform- il prev r Prices FGAES Matinee To-Day & Sunday. LAST TWO NIGHTS Of Augustin Daly's Charming Comedy, THE RAILROAD OF LOVE... Next Week—Augustin_Daly’s Bright Com- | edy, “Seven-Twenty-Eight.” CHUTES » Z0O EVERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SPECIAL TO-NIGHT : Monster Cakewalk ! IN POEPS PLASTIQUES —AND— BIG VAUDEVILLE SHOW! Telephone for Beats. Park " THE SAN FRANCISCO JOCKEY CLUB, TANFORAN PARK. inclgsive. Six stake events, one hurdie race and steeplecheses first two weeks, First race f the day at 2:10 p. m. Trains lesve Third OILS. LUBRICATING OILS. LEONARD & ELLIS, 415 Front st., 8 F. Phone Main 1719, PAINTS. Cylinder & Lubricating Olls, Schnelder's Mint Candies. C. G. CLINCH & CO.. § Front, 8. F. PRINTING. P! E C HUGHES, .. <o s v PRINTERS. BOOK BINDERS. THE HICKS-JUDD CO., __ % Pirst st., San Francisco. STATIONER AND PRINTER. | Teigrshie PARTRIDGE %% Culitorota | MINED BY street, WHITE ASH STEAN COAL, %1352, 2% DIAMOND COAL MINING CO., at its GREEN RIVER COLLIERIES, is the in the market. Office and s—450 Main street. AMUSEMENTS. BASEBALL! QOakland Sacramento TO-DAY AT 3 P. M. SUNDAY AT 2:30P. M. RECREATION PARK Eighth and Harrison Streets. Townsend streets for Tantora P‘ifl 3] »Q CONCERT HOUSE. 1:3 g nd 2 p. m., follow . ¢ the save Taoe at Jotercain ot ' tow mis- | FISCHER’S CONSERT_HQY e by several specials. Resr CArs res:rvy. : ladies and their escorts. Admission to the , including raflroad fare §1.38. D. LYNCH PRINGLE, Secretary. rf{LPE H. TOZER, Racing A Oftve Vail and Frank Tully; Irene Franklyn; Ouhama, the Jap; Harry H. Walton; Helen Stuart and Claire Fex. RESPRVED EBATS 2. MATINEE SUNDAY. | Question will be discussed and the speak FINDING OF AN ITALIAN’S BODY CAUSES SUSPICION OF MURDER Gilmondo Bartolomeo Dies as Result of Injury Received and Ghouls Rob the Corpse. ILMONDO BARTOLOMEO, a miner, after laboring In the northern countles of California for ten years, came to San Francisco two days ago en route to Italy, where he was to join his wife and daughter after a long separation. He was to have departed yesterday morning, but while the train on which he had ar- ranged to make the journey was steam- | ing toward the East, his body lay In the Morgue and detectives searched the city for evidence that wquld explain the man- ner of his sudden death. The money which was to have paid the expenses of the trip had been stolen from him, and ghouls, as far as the police have been ble to ascertain Bhortly after 7 o’clock yesterday morn- ing Bartolomeo's body wa foot of a flight of stairs leading down to the basement entrance to the Woman's Exchange on Ver Mehr street, off Kearny, between Sutter and Post. The man's skull had been fractured and blood flowed from his ears. His pockets had been rified and everything of value, except one nickel watch, taken from him. The body was discovered by Mrs. Hess, employed In the Woman's Exhange, and she at once notified Policemen George Douglass and Patrick Curry. Noting evi- dences of a foul crime, to which robbery | the had been added, the officers called Morgue officials and the detectives. For a time the case appeared mysteri- ous. Orlando Stefani, a cousin of the de- | ceased, made a statement that Bartolo- robbed of a watch and e position of the 1d clearly proved that a irs had not produced that could be made was that the unfor- tunate Italian’s life had been destroyed by.thugs who had stained their hands in blood for petty treasure. Later Detective Ryan discovered that B: omeo h om ad received injuries by fall- a car in the Potrero on the afternoon and that a fractured p: skull had probably been the resuit. That robbery had been committed, and most likely upon the cold and lifeless body, has now been clearly proven. The thieves may have used viclence, but the police think their victimm was either dying or dead before they came upon him. Bartolomeo came from Guerneville to San Francisco two days ago. He had ten years mining in the State and about to make a trip He i Thursday afterr for their tickets. They paid but were not to have recelved portation until 7 o'clock yester- ning. hursday Bartolomeo Stefani, and other for the purp small biil that was due steppi ing ed the - nis deatn. opsy Surgeon T. hat beneath the fracture at the base of the skull consid- erable blood had coagt d on the brai In the physician’s opinion, ugh e ive, would not v, but after several would Lring unconscious. ter fatal results. ount of the accident as given to rain matter, and s found at the | reasonable surmise | the fracture | od, bearing on the | Lo | BODY LAY WH TERDAY | THE DEAD ITALIAN MINFR AND THE POSITION IN WHICH THE N IT WAS DiSCOVERED BY — THE POLICE YES- *+ Detective Tom Ryan by Conductor T. L RE f Kentucky street car “The Italian rode from town on my car and after we passed Twenty-second street peed he rose from his seat and jumped off backward. He lost his footing and rolled over several times. We stopped the car, finding that the man was unconscious, and walted until he had been carried Into a fruit ators across the street. I did not know tae extent of his injuries at the time.”’ The Italian intended tc visit the Ken- | | tucky Hotel 2 Kentucky street. This | is between Twenty-second and Twenty third, and he tried to alight directly in | front of the door. After being thrown from the car Bartolomeo soon regained consciousness. He bled from the ears, but no further serfous results were an- ticipated from his fall. He met Daniel Bortola, the man who owed him the — money, and when he received the coin he boarded a car and started for town But one person saw him alive after that time. Assistant District Engineer P. Shaughn of the Fire Department says that an Itallan, accompanied by a lttle boy, passed the house of engine 15 on arket street, near Eleventh, during the evening and complained of a pain in his head. The latter said he had been thrown from a street car and hurt. After Bartolomeo's body was discovered yesterday morning Detective Ryan was detailed to solve the mystery. As near 2s he can learn Bartolomeo went into the Fasement where he was found before 10 o'clock Thursday evening. Two employes of the Lick House heard heavy snoring ahout that time, and one of them, Oscar Jacobson, says that a man who s be- lieved to have been the thief passed down the stalrway and remained there some me. FESSORS WILL TALK ON MUNICIPAL SUBJECTS Merchants’ Association Annuai Din- ner Promises to Be an Event in Local Circles. The annual dinner of the. Merchants' Assoclation, to be held at the Palace Ho- tel on the 5th of next month, promises to le event in the annals of the So many acceptances have already been received that the attendance will un- doubtedly be very large. The subject for discussion is one of great importance to PRO: the municipalf The question of mu nielpal ownership and operation of pub | utilities must soon be dectded by the citi- zens of San Francisco, and chants’ Assoclation is desirous of securing the benefit of the ripe judgment and ob- servation of the best authorities upon this question A Professor K. C. Babcock of the Univer- sity of California, Colonel Henry Wein- stock, & prominent merchant of Califor- nia; Professor F A. Ross, a well-known authority upon governmental affairs, and Frank J. Symmes, prominently known as a student upon municipal questions, will speak at this banquet. Both sides of the ers will present arguments in favor as well as in opposition of municipal owne ehip and operation of public utilitles, President Dohrmann will give a brief re- view of municipal affairs in connection with the work of the association during the past year. ADVERTISEMENTS. SOMETHING TO BE THANKFUL FOR On Thanksgiving day besides a good din- ner and plenty of “‘cheer” s an exguisite- ly laundered shirt, collar and cuffs that has that fine domestic finish and immacu- late color that the United States Laundry puts on it at all times. Your linen always gives perfect satisfaction when it is done up_by our improved methods. Domestic finish for full-dress shirts if you order it. No saw-edges. UNITED STATES LAUNDRY Office 1004 Market Street Telephone—South 420, ©Oakland Office—62 San Pablo Ave. » DR. JORDAN'S arear USEUM OF ANATOMY I!;Ilflll ST. bet. a7, B.7.Cal, Anatomical the Mer- | APTAIN FIRMAN A. NIPPERT, commanding Company F, First Regiment, Natfonal Guard of California, will appear on the 10th of next month in the Page- street armory for trial before a court- | martial to answer to a charge of having | made a false return as to his compan; | in connection with the parade on the 10th | ot September, Admission day. The fol- lowing have been named by Briga- General Warfleld, ,Second Brigade, the court: Lieutenant Colonel J. | Hayes, Fifth Infantry; Major John H Hendy, engineer officer, Second Brigade; Captain Charles Jansen, Troop A, ca alry; Captain George H. Wethern, Fifth Infantry; Captain E. G. Hunt, Fifth In- fantry; Captain H. T. Bennett, Fifth In- fantry; Captain E. A. Selfridge, Signal as try, judge advocate. based are very simple, but nuiy may in- | volve the captain in very serious conse- ql‘;enece. Ord(“:s were Issued for the First Infantry to parade on Admission day, and there was a parade, but it was stated that only eleven of the twelve companies were In the regiment. It was ascertained that Company F, Captain Nippert, was the missing one. When the parade re- ports were returned it appeared that Company F had paraded with forty-two men and two officers. The matter was turned over to Major James A. Margo for Investigation and from the report pre- sented it appeared that Company F (for- ty-two men and two officers) “‘was only a paper parade and that instead of having that number of men to help swell the ranks of the regiment, Captain Nippert had only about a dozen men at roll call The facts upon which the charges are | | | | | Corps; Captain D. A. Smith, Fifth Infan- | | 1 EI.APTA—IN NIPPERT OF COMPANY F, FIRST REGIMENT, TO BE COURT-MARTIALED Officer Is Accused of Having Made False Returns as to a Parade of His Command. & . 2 + A CAPTAIN F. A. NIPPERT, TO BE COURT-MARTIALED FOR MAKING FALSE RETURNS. + -4 and that these were consolidated with Company K, Captain Cunningham. Captain Nippert stated during the in- vestigation that he did not have enough men to make a showing, but as he did not give his reasons for making the parade report that he did, it was declded to pre- fer charges against him and give him an opportunity to explain before the court how he came to make his report as stated. HOME AGAIN AFTER THEIR LONG TRAVELS Colonel Alex G. Hawes and Barbour T. Lathrop Are in San Fran- cisco Once More. Colonel Alex G. Hnwe‘Mlll :mrlne ag_;elm travels it Mississippi, Ten- ?&Z‘»‘L‘.fi"f’é‘e‘or 1a he revisited the battle- flelds of Corinth, Shiloh, Lookout Moun- tain, Missionary Ridge and Chickamaugza. Many of the memorable flelds have been reserved as national parks, and the Gov- ernment has expended large sums of money in the building of permanent roads and the establishment of monuments to mark the actual lines of battlefields. On his homeward journey Colonel Hawes at- tended the reunion of the Army of the Tennesseee at Detroit, Michigan, and was honored by election to the first vice pres- idency of the famous soclety. Barbour T. Lathrop, journalist and sa- vant, who has traveled the world around and explored many places of the universe ay fgom the beaten path of globe-trav- . is in San Francisco n. He was an {ve spirit of the journalistic R when Clay street was the shrine of the dally press, and when the perch of the Owl was on Sacramento street. He will lin{er tonegjoy' the music of Christmas in Bohemia. mi‘r’-nk Hatch of New York, who renders annual homage to the Owl of Bohemla, is in town. ——————————— James Whitcomb Riley has written for The Call a splendid Thanksgiving poem. It will be published to-morrow. They Lost the Legal Fight. Mary C. Hull, who was asaulted and severely beaten by Mary E. and Anne ?n A 8 last, was awarded ?u tn‘x:‘l"lto‘éor“ damages against her uuflmufi :xn Dunne yesterday. The Gaynards made no defense to the ac- tion. Cadets on the Diamond. ‘BEvery game In the baseball tournament of the Le.zue of the Cross Cadets for 1900 counts in the pennant st 6. unda on the Presidio in the race ternoon, on , the leader pany an - first ml.tgh. followed pany Z ARCHITECT WELCH ‘Was Giving Testimony as an Expert and Sank Unconscious to the Floor. Thomas J. Welch, a well-known pioneer architect of this city, created a commo- tion yesterday morning In United States Commissioner Heacock's courtroom by falling to the floor in a faint. He was a witness in the case of Von Schroeder against Brittain, and was explaining a diagram hung on the wall, when he began to sink to the floor. He was caught by two of the attornevs and lald gently on the floor. Mr. Welch was unconscious and ‘a physician from .the office of the Marine Hospital was hastily summoned. Mr. Welch recovered in about ten min- utes. He explained that for the past three years he had been a sufferer with sciatic rheumatism, and that while he was testi- fying a sudden and excruciating pain caught him in the small of the back near the spine, plrllrlln{ him for the moment and causing him to lose consciousness. —_————— For a Cold in the Head. Laxative Brcmo-Quinine Tablets. L ————————— Fair Weather Promised. ‘Weather Prophet McAdie gives out the welcome tidings that there will be fair ‘weather to-day and probably to-morrow. The second storm which was reported to be bearing down on this vicinity has taken another course and is now lost in the wilds of British Columbia. The farm- ers can now enter upon their work with ater zest, as they have had an abun- ance of rain. The Weather Bureau offi- cials report all safe and qulet throughout the State. The rivers have not reached the high-water mark and there is no danger of them doing so. Foundations of the Universe. A. M. Burns, M. D., will deliver an {llus- trated biblical lecture at the Young Men's Christian Association Auditorium, Mason and Ellis streets, to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. The subject of his discourse will be “The Foundations of the Uni- verse.” The lecture will be illustrated by views. Service for men only. All young men invited. | peem on_whai? SAMUEL JOHNSON AND HUMOR OF ENGLISH AND when it was opened by the brilllant wit and satire of Dryden and his school, through its middle years, made glorious | | by the creation of the periodical and the i novel of manners, those most useful of all | literary forms for the study of human so- | | clety and its foibles, until its close, was | an era of marvelous fertility In all the | forms of wit and humor. Its early years were dominated by the fastidious Pope; | its iater years were ruled by rugged Sam- | | uel Johnson. 1 There was little of genuine humor in | Johnson's composition; he lacked intuition and sympathy, but he had an enormous fund of caustic wit. ‘“Johnson's dex- | | terity in retort,” says Boswell, “‘when he seemed to be driven to an extremity by his adversary, was very remarkable, and it was the testimony of Garrick that | “Rabelais and all other wits are noth- ing compared with him. You may be diverted by them; but Johnson gives you a forcible hug and shakes laughter out | }r)t you whether you will or no.” No one | could get the better of him in the way of | retort. “There is no arguing with John- | son,” declared Goldsmith, “for when his | pistol misses fire he knocks you down with the butt end of it.” His wit was un- feeling and brutal. Some one once liken- ed his wit to_excellent oil. ‘'Yes,” was the response, “oil of vitriol. ples will fllustrate his idea of wit: *‘He repeated to us," writes Boswell, “In his | foreible, melodious manner, the concluding lines | of “The Dunciad.” While he was taiking loudly in praise of these lines one of the company ventured to say: ‘Too fine for such & poem—a Johnson, with a disdainful look: ‘Why, it was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, sir, hadst thou lived ia those days! . It is not worth while being a dunce now, when | there are no wits." I Johnson's hatred of Scotland crops out | constantly In Boswell's blography. After | the tour in the Hebrides Bosweil hoped | that his friend would bave & better opin- | ion of the country. “You have now been in Scotland, sir, |and say if you did mot see meat and | | drink enough there.” *“Why, yes, sir, vers Johnson, “enough to give the Sufficient strength to run « e o Rtina ry vile “Well, sir, God He did; but we must s remember that He made it for £ ren, and parisons are odlous— but God made In Fek use which e , “was founded,” to Boswell, “that club of xisted long without a name, but at Mr. Garrick's funeral became distin- guished Dby _the title of the Literary Club. Sir Joshua Reynolds had the merit of being the first proposer of it, to which Johnson acceded, and the original members were Sir Joshua Reynolds, Dr. | Johnson, Mr. Edmund Burke, Dr. Nu- | gent, Mr. Beauclerk, Mr. Langton, Dr. | Goldsmith, Mr. Cramier and Sir ' John | Hawkins. | in Gerrard street, Soho, o | week at 7 o’clock and generally | their conversation umtil a pretty They met at the Turk's Head e evening every continued late | | hour. _This club has be>n gradually in | creased to its present: number—thirty- | five.” H | This club was the center of English wit, | and, indeed, of Englishyliterature, untii | | the ‘nearing storm of th4 French revolu- | | tion put an end to tife pefiod. The week- | |ly_or fortnightly meetirgs of this most | | gifted group of men at the Turk's Head, | | at Prince’s, in Sackvilie street, at Le | | Teher's, at Parsloe’s and at the old Che- shire Cheese were repetitions of those | merry nights at the Mermaid Inn, where | Shakespeare and Ben Jcnson held their wit_combats, or the more sober meetings | at Will's coffee-house, where Dryden so |long ruled supreme. Here, however, | there was a recording pen. All these | | merry evenings, with théir wit and wis- dom, their touches of genius, their quips 1 sallies, live for us -n the pages of | ell. No other body:of English wits | men of genius is known to us so intl- | | mately as this. To read the pages of this garrulous old rapher Iis like stepping into the very the great Johnson and his | S, We laugh and joke with | , we see them off their guard, we I ten to their opinions of men and books, wi hear them rallying each other on per- sonal peculiarities and we get to know | them as if we had actually sat night | after night in their presence. We see the great commoner, Burke, with “his knowl- edge, his genius, his diffusion and affiu- | ence of conversation,” with his dignity laid aside, scattering’ wisdom and witti- | cisms and unfailing good nature; catch | charming glimpses of David Garrick, | sprightly and effervescent, a fountain of fun and good spirits; we hear Goldsmith “rattling away, as usual,” a valn, droil, Totesque little figuw the life and_de- | lght of the whole party: we see much of deaf old Sir Joshua Reynolds, the painter, | When they talked of their Raphaels, Correg- | glos and stuff, He shifted his trumpet and only took snuff. We get a glimpse now and then of the reat Gibbon, “with hiseusual sneer,” of heridan and Colman, with their efferves- cent_spirits, and. indeed, of all the lead- ing figures of that most fertile age. But, | above all these, ruling the club with an fron hend, towers the figure of the great literary dictator, Dr. Johnson. He was | always the center of every -onversation, and always the leader. Ail voices ceased when he began to speak. ‘A German who sat next to him (Goldsmith) and per- ceived Johnson rolllng himself as if he was about to speak suddenly stopped him, saying: ‘Stay, stay! Toctor Shonson is going to say something.” This feeling was universal, though perhans Gotdsmith was at times a little jealo No opinion could stand above the great dictator's. “There is no arguing with Johnson.” de- clared his friend, Dr. Taylor, “for he will not hear you, ard, having the Jouder voice, muct wear ycu down.” All 'were wits in that company. is not often thought of as a humort his bon mots ars , yet numerous and often brilliant. Many have been recorded by Boswell. The great oratcr once declared of Lord Thurlow that “he was a sturdy oak at Westminster and a willow at St. James.” Some one once observed that the party calling themselves democrats was not holding together. “Ah,” sald Burke, “‘birds of prey are not gregarious.’ His retort when Mayor Scott, a small man, Interrupted him during his great speech against Warren Hastin well known. “Am I" he thundered, “to be teased by the barking of this jackal while I ‘::5 attacking the royal tiger of Ben- In marked contrast with the dignified and ponderous Johnson stood the viva- clous and voluble little actor, Garrick, “a short punch man, very lively and bust- ling,” as the old sexton at Stratford once VL The eighteenth century, from the time | eq | feeling, ana described him. His activity and exuberant O !rm;dmaded dullne:s ggpo :llble. Note - ure drawn swell. has Rllt entered the r):wm: Ao Garrick played around with him a fond vi- vacity, taking hold of the breasts of his coat and looking up In his face with a lively arch- ness, complimented him on the good heal hich he sbemed fhen to S nila the sage: shaking his head, beheld him with a gentls complacency.” His ready wit is proverblal His im- romptu _epitaph upon Goldsmith is ncwn by heart everywhere: Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called wno;m'ulm.uml.htm&amn At another time he n summed 4 gr John‘%l in an & the plays o promptu stanza: For physic and farces Thy equal there scarce 1s, Thy farces are physie, Thy physte a farce is.’* Two other actors shine among the wits of the day—Colman and Foote. Of these the latter was undoubtedly the leading comic wit of the [eflod. Even Dr. John- son was not proof against his sallies: % § T, b : 4 ditficult to please a man ] ¥ against his will. my dinner .ngy sullenly, feal that 1 was obliged to :2,"'4,.."" fork. throw myself back upon my Irly laugh It out. No, sir, he was I wi very I_went on eating affecting not to mind him. 80 very com! my knife and On_another occasion up Foote by saying: or jred R < obstrep- THE LITERARY CLUB. Copyright, 1800, b y Seymour Eaton. AMERICAN LITERATURE o broad-faced mirth, I know not his u: But with all its abundance of wits and men of genius the Literary Club had but e true humorist. The grotesque little octor who came to the meetings of the Tub in bloom-colored coat, who in_the words of Boswell, “to divert the tedious minutes strutted about bragging of his dress,” and who, whenever he tried to lead the conversation was down by the great dictator, was after all the one man of the period who possessed all the elements which go to make up genuine humor. Oliver Goldsmith was a critic as well as a poet. He had the somewhat rare power of detaching himself from his subject and viewing it from a neutral standpoint. In his “Citizen of the World" he criticized English soclety from the point of view of a Chinese traveler who writes let to his countrymen. Always he seems to be looking down upon human life from an outside vantage ground, and yet he writes as one who knows human soclety intimately from closs contact with it. Few follies and weaknesses escape him. In his ‘“ of the World" he touches nal.flz every folble and folly in the society of his day, and there is no mistaking his condemna- tion of them: yet he {s never severs, never cruel and bitter. Beneath his scariet coat and gorgeous ruffles, for which his lor was never to receive payment, there | one of the kindest hearts in all the “His ridicule,” says stde of good he handles even his eml - ments of folly and weaknees, ‘tenderly, as if he loved them, as if at ieast he had a lurking toleration for them, and recognized their claim to exist in own way as varietles of mull humanity.” The Chinesa traveler describes an Fing- lish dinner. He has come prepared for a world. always on th i3 rm | feast of reason and a flow of exhilaratin conversation, increasing in Interest an: good nature as the dinner progressed, but he is disappointed. No sooner were the dishes upon the table than all reason fled. The conversation now began to be littls more than a rhapsody of exclamations. As each pretty well satisfied his own te he mow | found sutfictent time to_press s, “Exol- lent! The very thing! Let me recommend the | pig; do but taste the bacon; thing ia my life! Exquisite! continued through three SNy Ny . Sp—— hours, till every courses, which lasted as man: | one of the company was unable to swallow or utter anything more. ror, hich breaks out every o now over a comet, now over a m now over something else. A dread of mad dogs i3 the epidemic terror which now prevalls, and the whole nation is at < | I +- | BAMUBL JOHNSON, LEXITOG- RAPHER AND WIT. (From portrait by Reynolds.) + - present astually groaning under the malignity of lts influence. The people sally 'rom thetr houses with that circumspection wh'h is pru- dent in such as expect a mad dof at every turning. The manner of knowing whether a dog fis mad or not somewhat resembles tie ancient European custom of trying witched The old woman suspected was tied hand ard foot and thrown into the water. If she swam, then she was _instantly carried off to be burnt for & witch; If she sank, then iIndeeed she was ac- quittsd of the charge, but drowned in the ex- periment. In the same manner & crowd gather round a @og suspected of madness and they begin by teasing the devoted animal on every side. If he attempts to stand on the defenstve and bite, then he is unanimously found gulity, for “a mad dog always snaps at everything' ; if, on the contrary, he strives to escape by running away, then he can expect no com sion, “for mad dogs always run stralght for- ward before them. “The Citizen of the World" & book full of careful studies of English society both high and low. Few things have escaped the keen eve of its author, and few follles and weaknesses but have been made ludicrous by this true humorist. Goldsmith's charming novel “The Viear of Wakefleld,” is also full of true humor. It s a loving picture of simple rural life drawn with minute accuracy. It is impos- sible to sample the rich vein of humor which permeates every chapter. The sim- ple old vicar and his somewhat vain wifs are depicted with a sure hand; we feel at the end of the novel as if we had actually known them in the flesh. Its sar- casm 1 logenlls, its frony so velled, its satire so hlnd ddi:ue %at we ll:l;ol! forget that they are there. The good hn?‘choun his wife she dld! her wa- ding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but for such qualities as would wear ‘well.”™ There s but ons fault In “The Viear of Wakefleld,” perhaps two; it is all too short, and In its closing chapters the story is huddled up in & way sadly inar- tistic. The novelist's tender heart could not endure to keep his creations long misery. He must restors every one ol them to his former happiness, and so the closing chapters are a mere chaos of re- u;mm-u:nd hn%p{h mtomuzns. flfi’ ‘;t them & Verge ol robal . TOFRED LEWIS PATTEE. Pennsylvania State College. Booked for Burglary. 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